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Person, society and value
towards a personalist concept of health
Abstract
Besides offering a critical analysis of the WHO definition and a review of both ancient and contemporary conceptions of health, the cooperative effort of physicians and philosophers presented in this book works through the challenges which any definition of health faces, if it is to be both truly personalist, and at the same time operational.The overall purpose of this book is to capture the essentials of human health and to propose the outlines for a personalist understanding of this concept, i.e., a conception that does justice to the personal nature of human beings by introducing dimensions that are essential to personal life and well-being, such as the realms of rationality, affectivity and freedom, the realms of meaning, values, morality, and spirituality, the realms of social and interpersonal relations.
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pp.19-31
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2570-5_2an adequate framework for a personalist concept of health?
pp.33-53
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2570-5_3two idolatries
pp.55-85
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2570-5_4towards understanding its personalist dimensions
pp.109-143
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2570-5_6well-being in a post-modern world
pp.147-163
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2570-5_7an argument for an objectivist understanding
pp.165-185
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2570-5_8pp.187-206
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2570-5_9pp.209-227
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2570-5_10Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Dordrecht
Year: 2002
Pages: 262
Series: Philosophy and medicine
Series volume: 72
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-2570-5
ISBN (hardback): 978-90-481-5971-0
ISBN (digital): 978-94-017-2570-5
Full citation:
Taboada Paulina, Fedoryka Kateryna, Donohue-White Patricia (2002) Person, society and value: towards a personalist concept of health. Dordrecht, Springer.